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The realm lies devastated after the big oil predicament that was once defined in final mild. Human society has roughly fullyyt damaged down and thousands lie lifeless of hunger or ailment. There are just one or beacon groups that experience controlled to style a brand new lifestyle. Jenny Sutherland runs the sort of teams. according to a chain of decaying offshore oil rigs - for security - a couple of hundred humans have rebuilt a semblance of normality during this differently lifeless international. yet as Jenny and her humans discover their atmosphere once more, they begin to understand now not each survivor has a similar imaginative and prescient of a higher destiny than their catastrophic earlier. There are humans in the market who may take every little thing they've got. struggle is coming, and the stakes are really titanic ...

Criminals are answerable for an blameless guy getting sentenced to existence for homicide. a clumsy safeguard lawyer and a crooked prosecutor are the opposite avid gamers as a result of egregious American corruption.

The 4 of them were lured right into a seize in an deserted warehouse. a person desires vengeance. this can be a tale of vigilante justice for the wrongfully convicted. Marked doorways bring about 4 locked rooms, one the place every one of them should pay a cost for what they've got performed. what is going to they be required to do so that it will survive?

This riveting crime mystery places the yank justice method in public view and may maintain you guessing till the final scene. a depressing masked determine watches. .. waits. .. and desires revenge.
Genre: mystery

From John D. MacDonald, one of many enduring American novelists of the 20 th century, comes a technology fiction vintage with a undying premise. An aimless younger guy discovers how to cease the realm in its tracks—and that’s whilst his existence actually begins.

Introduction by way of Dean Koontz

Once a standard math instructor, Omar Krepps constructed a knack for playing, accrued a superb fortune, and spent the remainder of his lifestyles touring the realm and freely giving his hundreds of thousands. Upon his demise, in spite of the fact that, Krepps bequeaths not anything to his nephew and in basic terms residing blood relative, Kirby Winter—nothing, that's, other than an old watch and a sealed letter to be opened after one year.

But Kirby has even more in his ownership than he realizes. The watch has the facility to control time. not just does this revelation make clear the secret of his uncle’s existence, it places Kirby at the route to incredible wealth and a brand new rent on love . . . in addition to an entire host of lethal problems. Even in a universe the place time isn't any factor, Kirby needs to tread conscientiously to stick one step prior to danger.

Praise for John D. MacDonald

“To diggers one thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald will be a treasure at the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen. ”—Kurt Vonnegut
“As a tender author, all I ever sought after was once to the touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me. ”[b]—Dean Koontz

“John D. MacDonald was once a author means sooner than his time. ”—John Saul